JUDGMENT :

This appeal is preferred by the Appellant/Insurance Company, challenging the award dated 15.07.2015 passed in M.V.O.P.No.186/2012 on the file of Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-II Addl.District Judge, Madanapalle, wherein the Tribunal while partly allowing the petition, awarded a compensation of Rs.4,20,000/-with interest @ 7.5% p.a. from the date of petition, till the date of deposit to the petitioners/claimants, for the death of T.Kadirappa in a motor vehicle accident.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are arrayed as parties before the tribunal.

3. As seen from the record, originally the petitioners filed an application U/s.166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for brevity “the Act”) claiming a compensation of Rs.5,00,000/-on account of the death of T.Kadirappa, who is the husband of the 1st petitioner, father of petitioners No.2 and 3, in a motor vehicle accident that occurred on 29.08.2011.

4. The facts would show that on 28.08.2011 at about 10.15 a.m., the deceased T.Kadirappa got into a tempo (Mahindra company) bearing No.AP 03 U 8810 with a load of vegetables. When the tempo reached E.B.Cross Road at about 01.15 a.m. on 29.08.2011 a car being driven by it